Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
I don't think OMNI posts should count. I'm not anti-OMNI as some would characterise me. Heck I post enough there and should post count be adjusted retroactively (as it was once before on the WWBTNFTMTP thread) I'll be impacted more than most.
You would undoubtedly be impacted more than I would if we restrict this to Omni posts, but I think we will be in the same position if we get rid of all the non M&P posts.
I did some checking today -- I have 16,801 posts on non M&P forums (not counting the private TB forum). In addition to that, I have 1918 posts on the Delta Forum Lounge Thread and 635 on its predecessor, the Unabashed Cholula Spam Thread. That is a total of 19354 posts which had nothing to do with showing someone how to get a better and/or less expensive trip.
(As I don't have access to the private TB Forum anymore, I don't know how many posts I have there, but I would not be surprised if they represent another 500-1000 of my total.)
If someone is judging my expertise in the core issues of FT based on the number of posts I have, wouldn't it make more sense not to mislead him with the roughly 20,000 posts that shows up in my count?
Originally Posted by
magiciansampras
Do you have any empirical data to back up this claim? I've seen lots of folks in this thread, some with low post counts, saying that post counts don't convey anything. I'm not sure you're right that people assume anything about post counts correlating highly with knowledge level.
Perhaps they don't -- but the fact that a lot of people are fighting to keep their post counts indicates that they feel it gives them extra status, and on an IBB dedicated to M&Ps, extra status should be reserved for those who know, and share, information on its core subject.